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Digital Storytelling <ul><li>Digital Storytelling refers to using new digital tools to help ordinary people to tell their own stories </li></ul><ul><li>The product is a 2-5 minute film that combines a narrated piece of writing, photographic images and a musical soundtrack. The philosophy behind this type of digital storytelling is one of using technology to enable those without a technical background to produce works that tell a story using moving images and sound. </li></ul>

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What is Digital Storytelling? <ul><li>Digital Storytelling is the modern expression of the ancient art of storytelling. Digital stories derive their power by weaving images, music, narrative and voice together, thereby giving deep dimension and vivid color to characters, situations, experiences and insights. </li></ul><ul><li>Let’s examine “voice” </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.digitalstorytellingworld.com/ </li></ul>

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“ A story should be remembered for its soul, not the bells and whistles”. If you don’t have a good or powerful story, script, and storyboard, then there will never be enough decorating that technology can do to cover it up. On the other hand, demonstrating exemplar craftsmanship with mixing the technical elements in artful ways to unfold your story creates compelling, insightful, original and memorable pieces of communication. The richness of a good story can be diluted when technical elements are over used, distracting, or just plain annoying. http://www.digitales.us/evaluating/index.php

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The 7 Elements of Storytelling <ul><li>Point of View – What is the main point of the story and what is the perspective of the author? </li></ul><ul><li>A Dramatic Question - A key question that keeps the viewer's attention and will be answered by the end of the story. </li></ul><ul><li>Emotional Content -Serious issues that come alive in a personal and powerful way and connects the story to the audience. </li></ul><ul><li>The Gift of Your Voice - A way to personalize the story to help the audience understand the context. </li></ul><ul><li>The Power of the Soundtrack - Music or other sounds that support and embellish the storyline. </li></ul><ul><li>Economy - Using just enough content to tell the story without overloading the viewer. </li></ul><ul><li>Pacing - The rhythm of the story and how slowly or quickly it progresses. </li></ul>

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Marco Torres Ideas for use Begin by having teachers create a movie of their “B” side (passions, outside talents, interests) http://alaslearns.com http://gallery.mac.com/torres21

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Pixar Mantra <ul><li>“ First you jump out of an airplane – then you figure out how to build the parachute” </li></ul><ul><li>“ Roll Sound” – Cameraman “Rolling Sound” – Director “Action” </li></ul><ul><li>Digital Storytelling is more than words – it empowers students to create and express </li></ul><ul><li>Wide shots set the scene, medium shots what is happening, close ups-emit emotion (especially the eyes)- “Ken Burns effect” </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/film/video.html </li></ul>

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Copyright-Free Images <ul><li>Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google. </li></ul><ul><li>Here is the link: http://images.google.com/hosted/ life </li></ul><ul><li>http://compfight.com </li></ul><ul><li>http://stockfootageforfree.com </li></ul><ul><li>http://pics4learning.com </li></ul><ul><li>National Archives National Archives Experience Digital Vaults Archival Research Catalog Access to Archival Databases Our Documents </li></ul><ul><li>http://flickr.com </li></ul>

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Integrating these concepts into the classroom <ul><li>Making your own video focusing on the aspects you want to teach. </li></ul><ul><li>Virtual field trips. </li></ul><ul><li>As a Lesson Hook </li></ul><ul><li>As a Way to Integrate Multimedia into the Curriculum </li></ul><ul><li>As a Way to Make Difficult Content More Understandable </li></ul><ul><li>To Facilitate Classroom Discussion </li></ul>

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Let’s learn how to use the video camera and tripod I’m using the Flip Camera today, but a newer “Kodak ZI8” has a memory card, mic input and 760 X 480 resolution (vs Flip 640 X 480 resolution) The I-Pod Nano also has a video recorder.